11-17 NWR WOTUS Change

This is your Northwest report for Thursday, November 17, I'm David Sparks and you may recall President-elect Donald Trump said during his campaign he wants the Environmental Protection Agency's Waters of the U.S. rule gone. But it won't likely be gone on day one of his presidency.

Much of agriculture cannot get rid of WOTUS fast enough and President-elect Trump, like his predecessors, will have the chance on day one to reverse earlier presidential actions. But can he end WOTUS? American Farm Bureau senior counsel for public policy Danielle Quist says he can only start the process.

Federal Courts have put the Obama EPA rule on hold, but that does not get rid of the vast expansion of federal water jurisdiction if the stay is lifted.

But Quist says with Trump in the White House, a GOP-led Congress will now have a better shot to end WOTUS.

And agri-pulse.com tells us the EPA has added epidemiological expertise to a scientific advisory panel (SAP) that will meet next month to consider the carcinogenic potential of glyphosate. The previously postponed meeting is now scheduled to take place Dec. 13-16 in Arlington, Virginia.